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  • Installing on a Pi 3 B+

    From Vince Coen@2:250/1 to Niels Haedecke on Wed Dec 5 18:36:52 2018
    Hello Niels!

    Wednesday December 05 2018 16:30, you wrote to me:

    Vince Coen wrote to All:
    I appreciate that the Pi is not the ideal hardware to run a bbs
    but I am 'assuming' I can work out how to use a usb HD (there is
    no HD conenctions for a Sata) and just boot up and run

    Um, the Pi is just perfect for running a bbs. And if it weren't for
    QEMU and DOS door games, I'd run my MBSE system (open to the public
    january 1st, 2019) on a Pi 1. MBSE does not cause heavy load and if
    you tar-gzip you bbs every night and copy it to a usb stick, you are
    quite safe with regards to the sd card. at least this is what the new Wintermute BBS will be made of.

    The "old" Wintermute BBS (the current one) ran Synchronet for 10 years
    with only three downtimes to replace a dead sd card.

    Kind regards,
    Niels


    Going to a different approach by using a HHD but as I cannot get the SD content to migrate over I will
    use it mounted to /home once fully sorted then replace user pi with me and create a full root account.

    NExt will be to work out how to run a rsync from the primary server to it each night as there is some
    security issues that the server will not let any one get it other than the BBS ftp area. This is due to
    the ftp setup for the BBS so will have to look at the rsync approach. May be that will work just have to
    remember to NOT overwrite the ~/bin directory :).


    Vince

    --- Mageia Linux v6 X64/Mbse v1.0.7.11/GoldED+/LNX 1.1.501-b20150715
    * Origin: Air Applewood, The Linux Gateway to the UK & Eire (2:250/1)
  • From Niels Haedecke@2:240/8002 to Vince Coen on Wed Dec 5 20:57:57 2018
    Vince Coen wrote to Niels Haedecke:
    Hello Niels!


    Thanks sorted but did do an export $MBSE_ROOT to cover it as well.

    Ah, nice. Will remember that one.



    One issue I do know is that the O/S Raspbian is only 32 bit while
    the Pi is 64 so creating a reduced system. The Pi 3B is possibly
    the first that is 64 bit.

    Nope, the Pi 2 already was / is 64 bit but at that time no 64 bit distros (aarch64) were avaialbe for it. (Open) SuSE were the first to come up with that.

    Wonder why they have not created dual platforms 32 and 64 bit like every other
    distro?

    Well, the Raspberry Pi foundation had the idea of making IT education for kids accessible through cheap hardware you could tinker with (LEDs, Sensors etc.). They needed only one platform and they did not and do not want to become a linux distributor. they offer their educational oriented raspbian in 32 bit
    and that is okay. They never expected dudes like you and me installing bbs systems on it or (like i do) run their web- and mailservers in a docker swarm
    cluster on them. They appreciate that we do that, though ... hehe ...

    There are some good documentations on how to set up a raspberry pi with a usb hdd out there on the web. i'm sure you will find an appropriate one. I never use anything except sd cards. cheap, easy to replace and with a little tweaking
    they do a good job. i use either kingston or samsung sd cards.

    Kind regards,
    Niels



    Greetings, Niels Haedecke

    --- MBSE BBS v1.0.7.8 (GNU/Linux-ARM)
    * Origin: Wintermute BBS (2:240/8002 2:240/1895 75:49/1895) (2:240/8002)